Garda assaulted

I a am sad reading back some people blaming the gardai it's not their fault. I do think they should be armed.

I believe we have a growing number of scumbags. Entitled to everything responsible for nothing. No respect for ANYONE not alone gardai. They tend to have lots of children and bring them up with their views. Anti society but expecting benefits from it.

If these 3 are not severely dealt with there is no hope. They should be straight to jail and not let out for 10 years. We are too soft on wrong doers.

I hope and pray those brave gardai are going to be ok

I am surprised any guards even go into some of those areas. Im sure there will be some bleeding heart story that their free solicitor will put forward. Try to justify their actions in some way.

These people are terrorizing the areas they live in, I seriously doubt they are holding down a job or paying rent/mortgage. Cut them off I say. You shouldn't be able to take from a society that you dont contribute too.

All that aside I think we need to take a long look at our guards. There needs to be a fitness/health/size requirement

In the 80s and 90s we grew up intimated and threatened by the Gardai.

I blame Political Correctness for todays mess.

What was the previous height restriction?

We have millions being wasted on RTE presenters....im not naming them, we all know who they are...

An Gardai deserve higher salaries and more support/numbers to take on these scumbags....

Defund RTE, Support the Gardai....

Somewhere around 2008 I think after a quick Google.

They were asked to issue them years vefore by the GRA (there's a IT headline from 2002 online) but I think it took a copper near getting chopped into little pieces to push the issue.

Garda Comer lost 6 pints of blood in the attack. I hope he got over it OK.

The delay on bodycams is a bloody national disgrace at this stage considering how they are regularly used in other jurisdictions but of course this country is different.

Again, I am not a fan of todays political correctness society as I have stated.

In the 80s and 90s you didn’t mess with the Gardai. When the mariah van with a few Gardai pulled up to you and your mates, It wasn’t the arresting part that was the concern. It’s the way in which you were arrested.

You not being a fan of political correctness is irrelevant. That's not the way it works these days (more's the pity).

Those with a hard-on for the days of Lugs Brannigan, and doling out a good beating (or shooting, in some cases, God help us all) are living in a fantasy universe.

Doesn't happen, won't happen, can't happen.

Very easy to pick out the posters who have something against AGS in this thread. No rational person would blame either Garda for that. Yes, it could have been handled differently, but to victim blame here is disgusting. Just highlights what kind of people these posters are.

I'm surprised it's not happening more often. I'm sure the lack of members is part of that reason, no Gardai around to assault. I see nothing changing. Nothing. Part of the reason I left.

You also have more people available to actually work. You know, drive those cars that are parked up outside the station because currently there aren't people available to man them.

What's your suggestion so? I was a Garda from ~2007-2017, and it never had enough members for everything. But that's partly because the country has AGS doing things they shouldn't be doing. Add to that that even calling a scumbag a scumbag could result in the member getting reprimanded, it would be no wonder why some would bother. I count 5 of the numerous assaults I got in those 10ish years to have been serious, or at the very least warrant a charge. No a single thing done to any of them. One nearly threw me over a 2nd (or 3rd, can't remember) floor balcony, only for I managed to grab something in time I was gone. He didn't even get questioned about it.

But the problem remains, there are NOT enough Gardai to do everything AGS has to do in this country. And now they have a fear of using force because management and the country are against them. As many have said, why anyone would want to join AGS now is beyond me. I'm working nights, doing about 3% of the volume of work I did while I was a Garda, and I'm getting paid more than a Garda with less than 5 years service.

I agree fitness is something that needs to be looked at. But it's a case of who provides what and who pays for it. ERU members get paid time during their shift to work out. Regular don't. Easy to see why some wouldn't keep the fitness up, mainly because you're either stuck in a car driving to incidents, stuck in the office dealing with people crap, stuck in court trying to stay awake, or stuck on a checkpoint/scene. The "beat" is long gone, very few manage to have members on the beat now. They can't even fill the cars.

I do believe Irelands scum is unique though. They target everyone and anyone and have no fear, with everything funded by the Government. They're spoiled brats who do what they want. I don't think other countries have this. And I don't think Ireland will ever change, not until the Gubbermint pull the finger out. And that's obviously not happening.

It's only going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better. It's when people start dying is when things change.